Don’t forget the attachment

November 17, 2010

I’m rarely wowed by UIs these days, but Gmail impressed me today. I was writing up an email, with the intent of attaching a document. Of course, by the time I finished writing the email, I had forgotten to actually attach the document. But Gmail informed me of this mistake when I pressed send:
I wonder if they can figure out a way to warn me even before I press send?

12 Responses to “Don’t forget the attachment”

Normally I’d agree with you (hence my comment about “can Gmail notify us before we press send”). But if a modal dialog can save a back and forth of “did you mean to attach that”, “oh right I did mean to attach that!”, I’m all for it!

Thunderbird does the same, but it display more subtle reminder at the bottom when you’re editing message and modal dialog when you are sending it.
@Charlie Hayes: if something is useful its impressive no matter what the trend is.

Indeed. It would seem trivial for them to warn you before you press send, I suspect they may have discussed when would be an appropriate / non-intrusive time to prompt and sensibly chose the point they did.